When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.
Credulity is always ridiculous.
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Reformed rakes often make the best husbands
The poor are our brothers and sisters. . . people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.