The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.