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.

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.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

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

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.