In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.