I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

Nothing worth noting.

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

God will never send anything your wayyou couldn’t handle.