Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.