Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
With words we govern men.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Tobacco is the tomb of love.
Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.