Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.