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.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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

One on God's side is a majority.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.