Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

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

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.

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.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

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

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