Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

Things do not change; we change.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.