Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.

Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The principle of rotation... in the body of [bank] directors... breaks in upon the esprit de corps so apt to prevail in permanent bodies; it gives a chance for…

'A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.'

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.