I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.