What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
Every government is always growing corrupt.
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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.