Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.
Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.
All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.