...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.