"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie."

"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them."

"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having."

"The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example."

"We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."

"Don't take life so serious--it ain't nohows permanent."