"I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

"The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God, the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty."

"I have always been a friend of the oppressed, and an enemy of the oppressor."

"Proud Wellington, with eagle beak so curled, That nose, the hook where he suspends the world!"

"I never was much of a believer in human perfectibility."