The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.