To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

All authority belongs to the people.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.