The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the on….

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair..

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority w….

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men..

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion..

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear..

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn..

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government..

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little..

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow..

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws..

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist..

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things..

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….

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 ….

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality..

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis..

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….

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years..

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing..