"Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”

“If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.”

“Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world.”

“To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”

“We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.”

“Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.”

“I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.”