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

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.