In politics experiments means revolutions.

With words we govern men.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.