The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.