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

"Every man meets his Waterloo at last."

"Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to i…"

"Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every go…"

"Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its fou…"

"What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the stee…"

"The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet."

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — power is ever stealing from the many to the few…. The hand entrusted with…"

"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 s…"