Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Revolutions never go backwards.

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.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

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