 Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. |
| Aristocracy is always cruel. |
| The keener the want the lustier the growth. |
| 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. |
| To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. |
| Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. |
| The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. |
| What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. |
| Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. |
| The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. |
| Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. |
| If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. |
| Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. |
| Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. |
| Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. |
| Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. |
