To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.