The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

We have need of history in its entirety not to fall back into it but to see if we can escape from it.

In this world without quiet corners there can be no easy escapes from history from hullabaloo from terrible unquiet fuss.

Antiquities are history defaced or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

When I was a little kid all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Also when you escape a Communist regime you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand liberty must contract.

In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.