top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Let no such man be trusted."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked."
Nature
"And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?"
Society
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
Government
"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it."
Power
"Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely."
Man
"There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits."
Community
"Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction."
Society
"American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society."
Society
"The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?"
Government
bottom of page