Category: Thought

“Political correctness will die as it lived — kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.”

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven’t seen them since.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families. Slavery has no use for either fathers or families, and its laws do not recognize their existence in the social arrangements of the plantation.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

Democracy does not attach men strongly to each other; but it places their habitual intercourse upon an easier footing.