Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the...

Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.