Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

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.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

One on God's side is a majority.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Responsibility educates.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

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

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.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better imitation is not discipleship.

Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm.

Revolutions never go backwards.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.