If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

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Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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...

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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...

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

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...

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.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

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...

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American...

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

New taxes should be a last resort, not an option

New taxes should be a last resort, not an option

The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.