A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

God often guides by what He doesn't provide.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

We hate so fast and we love too slow

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.