Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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.

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.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

One on God's side is a majority.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.