Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.