The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.