Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.