Great Throughts Treasury

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers."

"You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon."

"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head."

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done."

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."

"The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven."

"Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land."