Quotes

description of the proposed capitol at the Constitutional Convention: “ambition with idleness, baseness with pride, the thirst of riches without labor…flattery…treason..perfidy, but above all

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Yes, we must mix with the herd; we must enter into their feelings; we must humour their weaknesses; we must sympathise with sorrows we

The public welfare is swallowed up in a continual grasp for power, in an unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation or selfish avarice.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy – members of a naked society

The right to be alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.

Patriotism and philanthropy consist, not so much in altering laws and modifying institutions, as in helping and stimulating men to elevate and improve themselves

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

The four cornerstones of character on which this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.