I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.