"I know but one freedom, and that..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

“What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.”

“More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.”

“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”

“I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.”

“Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing”

“One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.”

“Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

“Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.”