Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
Every government is always growing corrupt.
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.