“Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.”

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

The radios are going to dictate. That’s another fight. That’s another story there. I wish they just let it be.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture,

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.