The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.