The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

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.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.