Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

One believes in what one wants to believe in.