Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.