"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."

"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

"Responsibility educates."

"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."

"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."

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

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."

"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors."

"Aristocracy is always cruel."

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."

"The heart is the best reflective thinker."

"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment."

"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."

"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."

"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."

"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."

"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."

"The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth."

"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."

"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

"If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack."

"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."

"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."

"One on God's side is a majority."

"Christianity is a battle not a dream."

"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."

"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."

"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."

"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."

"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

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