It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.