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

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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,...

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action

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.

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

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.

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.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

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...

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

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...

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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...

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a...

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a...

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but...

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but...