Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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.

Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products.

Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!

It is only light that can extinguish darkness.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here