"Our government is not copied from those of our neighbors: we are an example to them rather than they to us."

"We do not make our friends by receiving favors, but by conferring them, and we do not make our enemies by receiving injuries, but by inflicting them."

"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; wh…"

"For you are angry with me, who have no hand in the matter, and with yourselves too, if I may say so, for assenting to my counsels and sharing in my errors."

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."