Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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

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.