 A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. |
| If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. |
| Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. |
| I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. |
| Ideas control the world. |
| Justice and goodwill will outlast passion. |
| A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. |
| The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. |
| Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. |
| Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. Topics: Education |
| The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. |
| I am a poor hater. |
| Suicide is not a remedy. |
| If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. |
| All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. |
| There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. |
| Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. |
| Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. |
| I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. |
| A law is not a law without coercion behind it. |
