If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I do not consider that I have ever accomplished anything without God; and if it is His will that I must die by the hand of an assassin, I must be resigned. I m…

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are bri…

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'

I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde f…