“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.”

“He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never rise to fight again.”

“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”