Our power is in our ability to decide.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.