Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

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.

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

Aristocracy is always cruel.