Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
I have never been able to conceive how a rational being could pursue happiness by exercising power over others.
No government can sustain itself without the principle of both fear and duty. Good men will obey the latter, but the wicked only the former.
It is not possible to live without books.
No one leaves the position of president with the same prestige and respect that brought them there.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants: it is its natural fertilizer.
Men cannot be expected to be transferred from despotism to freedom on a featherbed.