A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.