---

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

---

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

---

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

---

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

---

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

---

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

---

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

---

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

---

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

---

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

---