"C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre."

“If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.”

“Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.”

“Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.”

“I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration and amnesty] to its stool which was wishful thinking. And that pattern of a four-legged stool was copied in the failed attempts to enact a second and bigger general amnesty for illegal aliens in 2006, 2007, and in the current year 2013.”

“I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.”

“Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.”

“I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.”

“I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.”

Source : Thomas Buchanan Read (1874). “The wagoner of the Alleghanies”, p.401