Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm

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

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

Write on my gravestone Infidel, Traitor, infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people

Inanimate objects never live, yet at the same time live forever

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

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

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