History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.