You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!