It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts,…

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertook such a Government as this is.

Nie chce, ale musze. (often written Nie chcem, ale muszem. to underline the accent)

When you have sweated, toiled, had mad dreams, hopeless nightmares, you find yourself in London's streets, cold and dank in the night air. Think - what have I …

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry this time my people were led by …