Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.