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.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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.

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

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

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.