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All Quotes Collection
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
60
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
70
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
52
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
36
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
47
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
45
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
34
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
38
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
55
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
63
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
50
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
49
"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical."
46
"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
53
"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."
46
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
48
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
67
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
38
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
76
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
70
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
63
"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."
37
"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
53
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
72
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
48
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
51
"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
40
"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
45
"So I departed and was free from imprisonment."
118
"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
34
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
63
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
49
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