We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.