the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.