Statesman Quotes

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The march of the human mind is slow.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
«first‹previous117118119120121122123124125126127next›last»
Total Records : 5562

Related Books

Share to your friends..

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive