Revolutions never go backwards.
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.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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.