"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."

"I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated."

"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."

"If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."

"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."

"The only atheism is the denial of truth."

"Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures."