The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.