Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.