To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.

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

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Hearts are stronger than swords.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people