Quotes

“Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.” Lance Armstrong

“It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.” Lance Armstrong

“There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.” Lance Armstrong

“It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.” Lance Armstrong

“I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.” Lance Armstrong

“I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.” Lance Armstrong

“If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.” Lance Armstrong

“My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.” Lance Armstrong

“But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.” Lance Armstrong

“I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.” Lance Armstrong

“I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.” Lance Armstrong

“It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.” Lance Armstrong

“Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.” Lance Armstrong

“Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.” Lance Armstrong

“For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.” Lance Armstrong

“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.” Lance Armstrong

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” John Adams

“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” John Adams

“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.” John Adams

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.” John Adams

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” John Adams

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.” John Adams

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” John Adams

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.” John Adams

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.” John Adams

“The happiness of society is the end of government.” John Adams

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” John Adams

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.” John Adams

“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.” John Adams