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

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.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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