Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.