“Every wall is a door.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 80 of 1106
“A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!”
“We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.”
“Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.”
“We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.”
“Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.”
“Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”
“If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.”
“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.”
“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
“Fate loves the fearless.”
“In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs”
“Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
“In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.”
“The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.”
“I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”