All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.