"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

"In politics the middle way is none at all."

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."

"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it."

"Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man."

"One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them."

"If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics."

"I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age."