By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.