The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

There is no indispensable man.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.