Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.