It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!

A.A. Bell

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Richard G. Scott

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Henry David Thoreau

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible.

Albert Camus

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Mary Lamb

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

Vinny Guadagnino

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Brian Moore

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

Kiri Te Kanawa

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

Laura Hillenbrand

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Emile M. Cioran