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.

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

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.