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.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.