~ Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy ~
~ The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments ~
~ We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both ~
~ You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne ~
~ The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves ~
~ How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese? ~
~ We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves ~
~ Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery ~
~ The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military ~
~ I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it ~
~ All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people ~
~ I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society ~