If They Do Kill Me, I Shall

My Great Concern Is Not Whether You Have Failed, But Whether You Are Content With Your Failure.

There Is Nothing True Anywhere, The True Is Nowhere To Be Seen; If You Say You See The True, This Seeing Is Not The True One.

I Turn, Then, And Look To The American People And To That God Who Has Never Forsaken Them.

Bad Promises Are Better Broken Than Kept.

Gratefully Accepting The Proffered Honor, [to Inscribe A New Legal Work To Him] I Give The Leave, Begging Only That The Inscription May Be In Modest Terms, Not Representing Me As A Man Of Great Learning, Or A Very Extraordinary One In Any Respect.