For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

There will be vice as long as there are men

I think the men will run even better at the Dartmouth Invitational ... especially if it's cool out.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do