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

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

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

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

Revolutions never go backwards.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.