“We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.”

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

Speech to the United Negro College Fund (9 May 1989), mangling the Fund's slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

Modernized rendition: I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The phrase "" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)
Variant: There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.
Context: I had reasoned dis out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.

&quot;On voit, par cet Essai, que la théorie des probabilités n&#x27;est, au fond, que le bon sens réduit au calcul; elle fait apprécier avec exactitude ce que les esprits justes sentent par une sorte d&#x27;instinct, sans qu&#x27;ils puissent souvent s&#x27;en rendre compte.&quot; <br class="br">From the Introduction to Théorie Analytique des Probabilités http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&amp;O=NUMM-88764, second and later editions; also published separately as Essai philosophique sur les Probabilités (1814). Œuvres complètes de Laplace, tome VII, p. cliii, Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1878-1912. <br class="br">Also reported as: &quot;The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which ofttimes they are unable to account.&quot; <br class="br">Or as: &quot;Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.&quot;

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 14 : The Meta-Programming Circuit, p. 219

Sentencing (1880)

"To Janet Merriman", quoted in Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933) p. 81