All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

We need a new political science for a new world.

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.