"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."

"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo."

"The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it."

"One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them."

"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."

"She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting."

"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself."