to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

Inspiration follows aspiration.