The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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...

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 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...

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.

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

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

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...

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.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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

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...

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,...

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...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young,...

It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young,...