Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

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.

There is an unreasonable joy to be had from the observation of small birds going about their bright, oblivious business

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.