All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

There's no greater joy than being able to touch People's hearts.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

I have existed before Abraham was born.

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now.

Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.