Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves — self-discipline with all of them came first.

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of clichés the first prize.