Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
The heart is the best logician.
Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Revolutions are not made, they come.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.
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