“This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.”

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

God helps him who strives hard.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Money is the wise man’s religion.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Common sense is the best prophet.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.

When you oppose the shaykh, it’s like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. ‘Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?’ He says, ‘So my master will suffer loss.’

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.