“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable”

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them”

“In plain words, chaos was the law of nature, order was the dream of man.””

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do”

“You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls”