A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Times change, and we change with them.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.

Everything in life is a mystery if...

Embrace the right values that may enable you achieve self-leadership & self-discipline, and show commitment to these values unconditionally.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

Tell me who I am. (29)

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

Above all things, reverence yourself.