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

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.

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.