"Liberty, then, about which so many volumes..." - Quote by Voltaire

“A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.”

“Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.”

“Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.”

“If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.”

“I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.”

“The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves”

“We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.”

“And let us never forget that in honoring our flag, we honor the American men and women who have courageously fought and died for it over the last 200 years, patriots who set an ideal above any consideration of self. Our flag flies free today because of their sacrifice.”

“I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”