Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
One on God's side is a majority.
Revolutions are not made they come.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."