Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

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

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

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.