I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

If we are not represented, we are slaves.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

A man's house is his castle.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

Move toward resistance and pain.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

If I could choose, I'd be bare feet with animals all around me and living in a tree house. Like Tarzan and Jane, that's my dream. I'm at my happiest around nature.

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

Recovery is the urge, the wrestle, and the resurrection.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work.

Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on.

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.

When the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.

People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.