Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Aristocracy is always cruel.