We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

I can't go back, " said Towser. "Nor I, " said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog, " said Towser. "And me, " said Fowler, "back into a man.

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.