How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

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.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Aristocracy is always cruel.