I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.

I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.