But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, n ...

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, ...

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the stro ...

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.