The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

The grand instructor, time.