Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Short cuts make long delays.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.