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

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.