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.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

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.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.