The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Never apologise for showing feeling. when you do so, you apologise for the truth.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.