What Gunpowder Did For War, The Printing-press

The Condition Upon Which God Hath Given Liberty To Man Is Eternal Vigilance.

How Prudently Most Men Creep Into Nameless Graves, While Now And Then One Or Two Forget Themselves Into Immortality.

Government Is Only A Necessary Evil, Like Other Go-carts And Crutches. Our Need Of It Shows Exactly How Far We Are Still Children. All Governing Overmuch Kills The Self-help And Energy Of The Governed.

Society,--the Only Field Where The Sexes Have Ever Met On Terms Of Equality, The Arena Where Character Is Formed And Studied, The Cradle And The Realm Of Public Opinion, The Crucible Of Ideas, The World's University, At Once A School And A Theater, The Spur And The Crown Of Ambition, The Tribunal Which Unmasks Pretension And Stamps Real Merit, The Power That Gives Government Leave To Be, And Outruns The Lazy Church In Fixing The Moral Sense Of The Eye.

Republics Exist Only On Tenure Of Being Agitated.