"I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free."

"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one."

"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"All your strength is in your union, All your danger is in discord."

"L'état!—c'est moi!"

"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."

"The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity."

"The government of the Union, then, is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them and for their benefit."

"The all-men power; government over all, by all, and for the sake of all."

"To make a bank, was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate."

"States are not made, nor patched; they grow: Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws."

"Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them."

"If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire."

"Unearned increment."

"La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence presque toujours par celle des principes."

"Les républiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvreté."

"Nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia regitur mundus."

"There is what I call the American idea. * * * This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,—that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom."

"First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation."

"Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people."

"Slavery is in flagrant violation of the institutions of America—direct government—over all the people, by all the people, for all the people."

"In principatu commutando civium Nil præter domini nomen mutant pauperes."

"Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest."

"Themistocles said, "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.""

"The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities—mob rule."

"The right divine of kings to govern wrong."

"He shall rule them with a rod of iron."

"The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal."

"Le despotisme tempéré par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta."

"Say to the seceded States—Wayward sisters, depart in peace!"

"The Pope sends for him … and (says he) "We will be merry as we were before, for thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.""

"Invisa numquam imperia retinentur diu."

"What a man that would be had he a particle of gall or the least knowledge of the value of red tape. As Curran said of Grattan, "he would have governed the world.""

"Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light."

"The schoolboy whips his taxed top, the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death."

"Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small."

"Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset."

"In the parliament of man, the Federation of the world."

"Et errat longe mea quidem sententia Qui imperium credit gravius esse aut stabilius, Vi quod fit, quam illud quod amicitia adjungitur."

"We preach Democracy in vain while Tory and Conservative can point to the opposite side of the Atlantic and say: "There are Nineteen millions of the human race free absolutely, every man heir to the throne, governing themselves—the government of all, by all, for all; but instead of being a consistent republic it is one widespread confederacy of free men for the enslavement of a nation of another complexion.""

"Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people."

"Hæ tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos."

"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."

"A National debt is a National blessing."

"The people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

"When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!"

"He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet."