"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."."It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."."Life is tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.".
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."."Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do."."There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.".
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."."The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."."History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.".When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.And suppose you were a member of Congress. "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"."Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.".