Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

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

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.