What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
~ Wendell Phillips
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
Responsibility educates.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
