“The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.”

“Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.”

“All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

“I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

“The strongest of all governments is that which is most free.”

“...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”

“Republics are ungrateful.”

“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.”

“It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”