Great Throughts Treasury

"War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own."

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."

"We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman."

"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."

"We measure genius by quality, not by quantity."

"What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind; the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge."

"What is fanaticism to-day is the fashionable creed to-morrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."

"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."

"When Infinite Wisdom established the rule of right and honesty, He saw to it that justice should be always the highest expediency."

"When Marmontel was regretting the excesses of the period, Chamfort asked: “Do you think that revolutions are made with rose-water?”"

"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."

"With us, law is nothing unless close, behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutes was waste paper, lacking all executive force."

"Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor. --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."