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.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

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.

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

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

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

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