"Let them call me rebel, and welcome,..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.”

“When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.”

“Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.”

“Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.”

“Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.”

“Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.”

“The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.”

“I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.”

“I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.”