By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.