I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
