Shocking Sayings
29 sayings found from the Early Modern era
God's purpose is immutable, and cannot be changed.
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
I shall at least be not altogether useless after my death.
I will be what I ought to be, and if I am not, I will be nothing.
The liberty of blacks could be guaranteed only under an independent black government.
It is not worth my while to manufacture in three countries only; but I can find it very worthwhile to make it for the whole world.
I am not surprised that men are not grateful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which He has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow creatures.
I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.