Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

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.

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life.

Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy!

The dream came again—three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.

I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.