Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were, first, never to be a second in a duel; and, second, never to go security for another man's debts.

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.