Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.