"Clever policy consists in making nations believe..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.”

“Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.”

“The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.”

“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.”

“I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation”

“I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting”

“I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.”

“The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.”

“If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."”