Category: Thought

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.”

“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”

“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

“That some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, Christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications.”

“America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”

“The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.”

“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”

“I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.”

“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”