Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.
A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
To fly we have to have resistance.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.