Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own...
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to...
Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own...
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire it is a...
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...
I believe that history has shape order and meaning that exceptional men as much as economic forces produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty nobility and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.