General Sayings

If you don't try to win, then why keep score?

The world is put back by every mistake and advanced by every truth.

The only authentic way to live is to be a non-conformist.

We have been called militant, and we are militant, when we are fighting for a just cause.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—and of course, spiders.

I went to jail for a while. They said I resisted arrest. I didn't resist, I just didn't want to go.

Every day, people are dying. They're not dying because they're old, they're not dying because they're sick, they're dying because they're bored.

(No direct quotes found that are genuinely funny, witty, absurd, or unintentionally comedic and can be reliably verified. Historical accounts suggest he was a stoic and ceremonial figure, with few documented personal remarks.)

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.