The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. Take care of yourself.

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

This is what Donald Trump understands. This is the trade deficit. We run a trade deficit of close to $800 billion a year.