Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Politics have no relation to morals.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.