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

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

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.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

Revolutions never go backwards.