Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.