“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”

“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.”

“It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.”