Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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

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

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

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

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

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

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

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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

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

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

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

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

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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

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

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

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