Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

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

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

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.