"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

"If it can be dreamed, it can be done."

"Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations."

"Time is fun when you're eating flies."

"Tradition is laziness."

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."

"Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world."