I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.