“Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.”

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Each day grow older, and learn something new.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan ‘neath slavery’s heavy rod.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Say nothing but good of the dead.

We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

If we’re going to achieve the change we need, we must elect strong progressives to Congress.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election.

I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

We must rebuild trust in the system so that the younger generation can feel reassured.