Category: Thought

“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.”

“I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.”

“What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.”

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy.”

“Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another.”

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent.  Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.  The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”