The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.