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.

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

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

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

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.