I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
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I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before… it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.