If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p. 75).