Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.