Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Wendell Phillips
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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.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
One on God's side is a majority.
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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