There can be no such thing as a nation flourishing alone in commerce: she can only participate; and the destruction of it in any part must necessaril… - Thomas Paine

Wer seine eigene Freiheit sichern will, muss selbst seinen Feind vor Unterdrückung schützen.

There is not, throughout the whole book called the Bible, any word that describes to us what we call a poet, nor any word that describes what we call poetry. The case is, that the word prophet, to which later times have affixed a new idea, was the Bible word for poet, and the word prophesying meant the art of making poetry. It also meant the art of playing poetry to a tune upon any instrument of music. We read of prophesying with pipes, tabrets, and horns — of prophesying with harps, with psalteries, with cymbals, and with every other instrument of music then in fashion.9 Were we now to speak of prophesying with a fiddle, or with a pipe and tabor, the expression would have no meaning, or would appear ridiculous, and to some people contemptuous, because we have changed the meaning of the word.

that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.