We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

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

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

Revolutions are not made, they come.