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

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

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.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.