"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.… No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do."

"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."

"One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control."