The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.