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.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

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.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.