Love & Life Sayings

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely, the kingdom of England.

I would rather suffer a hundred times than be a slave.

I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of a bad reputation.

I love power as a musician loves his violin.

I am a man of flesh and blood, and not of wood.

I have never governed by fear, but by the love of my people.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I have seen many men with long beards and little brains.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man.

I have been nourished by books, and I have found in them a great deal of good as well as a great deal of evil.

In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

He who is led by fear and does good to avoid evil, is not guided by reason.

Nature makes no leaps.

The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Let every one of you take heart and go forward like a good soldier, nothing daunted by the smallness of your numbers.

I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen.