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.

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

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

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.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.