The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their…

In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Truth is one forever, absolute; but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition, of the spectator.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

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.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.