"What is the government? Nothing, unless supported..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”

“A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.”

“Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.”

“Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.”

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”

“I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.”

“Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”

“People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.”