The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.