A promise must never be broken.

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.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.

If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.