Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

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.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.