“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”

“Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country”

“Zuhause ist, wo ich arbeite, und ich arbeite überall”

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour”

“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us”

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”