Insurrection Of Thought Always Precedes

The Penny-papers Of New York Do More To Govern This Country Than The White House At Washington.

Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty; Power Is Ever Stealing From The Many To The Few. The Manna Of Popular Liberty Must Be Gathered Each Day Or It Is Rotten. The Living Sap Of Today Outgrows The Dead Rind Of Yesterday. The Hand Entrusted With Power Becomes, Either Form Human Depravity Or Esprit De Corps, The Necessary Enemy Of The People. Only By Continued Oversight Can The Democrat In Office Be Prevented From Hardening Into A Despot; Only By Unintermitted Agitation Can A People Be Sufficiently Awake To Principle Not To Let Liberty Be Smothered In Material Prosperity.

Do Not Take The Yardstick Of Your Ignorance To Measure What The Ancients Knew, And Call Everything Which You Do Not Know Lies. Do Not Call Things Untrue Because They Are Marvelous, But Give Them A Fair Consideration.

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.

Take The Whole Range Of Imaginative Literature, And We Are All Wholesale Borrowers. In Every Matter That Relates To Invention, To Use, Or Beauty Or Form, We Are Borrowers.