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

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

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

Revolutions are not made, they come.

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.

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

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.