Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Often your face is your autobiography
The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.