The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.