Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the main road to go to God, the rest are the ‘by-ways’.

Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line

To instruct others is to engage the simplicity of receiving eternal life

I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.