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"By my physical constitution, I am but an ordinary man. The times alone have destined me to fame - and even these have not been able to give me much." "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." "Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens theunderstanding and softens the heart." "I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would bedone by. The definition of liberty tobe the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, doesnot seem satisfactory." "Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." "Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics." "Society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases." "Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to liberty, and few nations, if any, have found it." "The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." "The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea." "There is but one element of government, and that is the people. From this element spring all governments." "Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." Copyright 2000-2002 |