“Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.”
Failure“Wisdom begins at the end.”
Wisdom“Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.”
Failure“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”
Government“Wisdom begins at the end.”
Wisdom“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
Power“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
Society“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”
Education“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”
Politics“The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”
Government“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”
Truth“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.”
Power“Keep cool anger is not an argument.”
Anger“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”
Men