These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

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.

Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,

I can look beyond the cloudsto feel your lovethe sun will rise againto end the darkness

I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep talking about something else.

Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."

My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

I like being a woman and having a womanly body.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.

Women in America... cannot trust Mitt Romney to protect our health.

Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.