"To freemen, threats are impotent...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.”

“No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.”

“The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.”

“For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree”

“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?”

“Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.”

“And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.”

“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”

“Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.”