"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."

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

"Between thought and expression lies a lifetime."

"I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again."

"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal."

"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."

"It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb."