“Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the m...” — John Tyler Quote

“Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.”

“Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.”

“This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.”

“There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.”

“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”