The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.