I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
A government of laws, and not of men.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
In politics the middle way is none at all.