What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Hearts are stronger than swords.
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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.
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.