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.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

Titles do not count with posterity.