“When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.”

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

I’m on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Embrace the feeling of being you. You are existing- and that is extraordinary.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I will show you a winner everytime.

Its painful to see when your own people doesn’t support your artistic calibre. The very quality strangers call you extraordinary for.

There are so many extraordinary things done in an ordinary day that goes unnoticed.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Get out of your comfort zone and do something extraordinary.