Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.