People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.
The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.
I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.
It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.
Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.
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