Occupation: Statesman Birth: January 12, 1729 Death: July 9, 1797
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist..
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact ….
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws..
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years..
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are m….
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it..
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn..
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis..
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing..
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly ab….
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse beca….
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government..
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion..
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority..
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow..
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear..
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse..
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things..
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality..
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little..
If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor.