Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
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“It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world”
“Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.”
“I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.”
“Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
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“Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.”
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“The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.”
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“Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series
“Every government is always growing corrupt.”
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“There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.”
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“Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.”
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“Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.”
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“Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.”
“We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.”
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“Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!”
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“The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series
“Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.”
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“Hearts are stronger than swords.”
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“Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.”
Source: Disunion: 2 discourses
“War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.”
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Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
Source: Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Patriot
“The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.”