We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

One on God's side is a majority.