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.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

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.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.