Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
One on God's side is a majority.