Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

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.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.