Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

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

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

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.