We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

You demand excellence and excellence demands your every move better

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary studies, but I wouldn't blame it on any one methodology.

It was hard to follow my dreams... I didn't let anything stop me.

The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.