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

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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...

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

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,...

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

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...

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

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

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...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

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,...

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...

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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.

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 being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too...

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too...

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the...

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the...