Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

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

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.