In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

I would prefer not to.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.