Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

Great men are almost always bad men.