Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.