"There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed."

“From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature.”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1968). “The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin”

“There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.”

“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”

“To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!”

“REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.”

“I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.”

“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.”