"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think."
"You don't learn to swim by reading about water."
"He that, in the state of nature, would take away the freedom that belongs to any one in that state, must necessarily be supposed to have a design to take away every thing else, that freedom being the foundation of all the rest."
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
"They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war... even against the greatest odds, there is something in the human spirit — a magic blending of skill, faith, and valor — that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory."
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
"It is not the purpose of the state to transform men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but rather to enable them to develop their mental and physical faculties in safety, to use their reason without restraint... Thus the purpose of the state is, in reality, freedom."
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
"To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice."
"The most important things are the hardest to say."
"We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
"Time is the fairest and toughest judge."