There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

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

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!