Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I hope they pardoned them. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that i wish it to be always kept alive....I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character.