Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.