It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?

We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.