God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.