We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today