The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.