The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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.
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.