There are three sorts of people: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those who move.
Eras
Enlightenment
Reason, liberty, and the men who distrusted both just enough.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Well done is better than well said.
Lost time is never found again.
The world is run by the people who show up.
Most people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they're seventy-five.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
The true, the good and the beautiful form a group of three great figures; evil may raise a storm of dust that conceals them from the majority, but the time passes, the cloud dissipates, and they reappear as venerable as ever.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
We confess our little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
The one who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others cannot live without him is even more mistaken.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Academies that are founded at the public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.