I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
From John Adams
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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