I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Quote by James Russell Lowell

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say...

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say...

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his...

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his...

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those...

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those...

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't...

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't...

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress,...

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress,...

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between,...

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between,...

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of...

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of...

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory...

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory...

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible...

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible...

Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly,...

Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly,...