“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Eat to live, don’t live to eat.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

You left and I wanted you still yet I deserved someone who was willing to stay.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.

You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.