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

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

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

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 heart is the best logician.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.