The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

The power rests with the multitude, but let them beware how the exercise of it turns against their own rights! It is not the idol but the worshippers that are to be dreaded, and who, by degrading one of their fellows, render themselves liable to be branded with the same indignities.

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination