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I am a poor hater.
Suicide is not a remedy
Ideas control the world.
Suicide is not a remedy.
Tortured for the Republic.
Right reason is stronger than force.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
For love of country, they accepted death.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.
I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.