That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.