In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

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

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.