Character Quote by John Adams

“By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same…

— Edmund Burke

“Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Beyond the nation, we acknowledge those eternal and immutable principles in the name of which one must be ready to fight and die, subordinating…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“of light and life, thou Good Supreme!           O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself!           Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,           From…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the…

— Aldo Leopold

“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more…

— Plutarch

“Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect…

— George Washington