You can never plan the future by the past.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.