Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

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.

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

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.