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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vail that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations, of the heart of the Infinite.
Love
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
Wisdom
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
Courage
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Truth
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Love
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
Wisdom
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
Wisdom
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
Life
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Wisdom
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Education
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
Life
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
Wisdom
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
Wisdom
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
Wisdom
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
Wisdom
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
Life
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
Success
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
Wisdom
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Wisdom
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Wisdom
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Life
Suicide is not a remedy.
Wisdom
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
Wisdom
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
Wisdom
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