History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether [the press] fear you. It is just as simple as that.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

Set the cart before the horse.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courag