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.
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
Revolutions never go backwards.
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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