Society and the World

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

If the triangles were to make a God they would give him three sides.

One should always have one’s boots on, and be ready to leave.

Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

One should eat to live, and not live to eat.

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet ’em on your way down.

If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism;

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

What I have spoken, is the language of that which is not called amiss The good old Cause.

What I have spoken, is the language of that which is not called amiss The good old Cause.

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

Cromwell, our chief of men.

Peace hath her victories

Licence they mean when they cry liberty;

Licence they mean when they cry liberty;

Just are the ways of God,

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him

The world was all before them, where to choose