One on God's side is a majority.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

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.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.