Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.

The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will.

Progress can do nothing but make the most of us all as we are:

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the s…

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they ma…

In no country perhaps in the world is law so general a study [as in America]...This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in…