Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.