Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Light is the symbol of truth.