If this nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and what will never be.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must…

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

There have been periods when the country heard with dismay that 'the soldier was abroad.' That is not the case now. Let the soldier be abroad; in the present a…

Those who, in the nineteenth century, argued the dangers of a mass democracy in which a majority of the voters would have no stake in the country at all, had r…

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.