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.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

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.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people