The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

You can put people’s feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we’re constantly creating our own history.

It was just like, ‘Let’s stop playing. We really love each other. I’m scared to lose you, and you scared to lose me.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered… deeply, …finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.