Pleasure is a physical experience.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I have no trouble sleeping.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.