Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

All things are only transitory.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

You can’t do something forever.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The status quo sucks.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.