It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

The smell rewards the care.