People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.