We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.