"We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is."

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once."

"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."