Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
The human mind ever longs for occupation.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.