Hearts are stronger than swords.
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.