If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
We are all human, and all do wrong.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.