If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Faith is believing things you know aint true

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.