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

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.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.