Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

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.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

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

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.