The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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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.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

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...

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

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

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...

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.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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

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

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...

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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,...

The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette...

The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette...

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during...

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during...

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

Justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.