“The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty”

“god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!”

“If you FAIL to PLAN. You PLAN to FAIL.”

“You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.”

“If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.”

“Nine men in ten are suicides.”

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”