"The jury passing on the prisoner's life..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.”

“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.”

“Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.”

“The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.”

“Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.”

“Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.”

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.”

“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”