“Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.” Quote by Robert W. Hemphill
“The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.” NeedsPoliticalOrderOpportunityIndividualForceCommunityJusticeGreaterRightsViolenceSpeechImportanceConstitutionInstitutionsPressesPreservesDiscussionFree SpeechImperativesAssemblyIndividual RightsFree PressConstitutional RightsIncitementSafeguarding Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.” GovernmentOrderFreedomPreservesModeration Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.” IfsGovernmentWould BeOrderStrongPoorLibertyDemocracyRichDoubtEffectsMilitaryPropertyDemocraticSavedSmallestCivilisationPlunderDemocratic Government Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.” MenHeartBookActionEventsEloquenceTutor Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.” IfsMenMayCountryStatesParticularDependsInstitutionsGreat Men Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.” HumansAgeFoundHuman Nature Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.” MindFirstsChildrenLittlesWholePoetryPiecesTalentPoetChiefsTitlesEnlightenedAspireSuperiorityHindranceGreat PoetUnlearn Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.” FateAccidentsKismet Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.” ArtImaginationGraceStyleTastePersuasionMagnificence Author:Thomas B. Macaulay