The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.
Honor is a harder master than the law.
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.
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