Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.