"Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes."

"While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly."

"I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot."

"For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever"

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

"They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

"Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle."

"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

"It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do."

"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."

"It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."

"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

"Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality."

"No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of "acting "and reasoning as fear."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]"