 If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. |
| If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. |
| Lead, follow, or get out of the way. |
| The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. |
| Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. |
| We have it in our power to begin the world over again. |
| Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. |
| It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. |
| Human nature is not of itself vicious. |
| An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. |
| My mind is my own church. |
| One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. |
| Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. |
| Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. |
| That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. |
| Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. |
| The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. |
| Character is much easier kept than recovered. |
| A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. |
| It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. |
