Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.