The Advice Of The Elders

For My Part I Think It Is A Less Evil That Some Criminals Should Escape, Than That The Government Should Play An Ignoble Part.

The History Of Intellectual Growth And Discovery Clearly Demonstrates The Need For Unfettered Freedom, The Right To Think The Unthinkable, Discuss The Unmentionable, And Challenge The Unchallengeable. To Curtail Free Expression Strikes Twice At Intellectual Freedom, For Whoever Deprives Another Of The Right To State Unpopular Views Necessarily Also Deprives Others Of The Right To Listen To Those Views.

There Is Nothing Earthly That Lasts So Well, As Money. A Man's Learning Dies With Him, As Does His Virtues Fade Out Of Remembrance, But The Dividends On The Stocks He Bequeaths To His Children Live And Keep His Memory Green.

The Only Condition Of Peace In This World Is To Have No Ideas, Or, At Least Not To Express Them.

Poverty Comes Pleading Not For Charity, For The Most Part, But Imploring Us To Find A Purchaser For Its Unmarketable Wares.