“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
Power“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”
Government“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
Power“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.”
Power“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”
Truth“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”
Government“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
Society“Wisdom begins at the end.”
Wisdom“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”
Education“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”
Men“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”
Politics“Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.”
Failure“The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”
Government“Keep cool anger is not an argument.”
Anger