There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.