"I am the signet which marks the..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.”

“Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.”

“To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.”

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

“Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.”

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

“I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.”

“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”

“Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.”