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A democracy that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. - [Democracy] All men desire to be immortal. - [Immortality] All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little--something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life. - [Ideality] As society advances the standard of poverty rises. - [Poverty : Society] Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. - [Cities] Covetous men need money least, yet most affect it; and prodigals, who need it most, do least regard it. - [Money] Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.' - [Democracy] Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. The world would foment with revolution. - [Injustice] Disappointment is often the salt of life. - [Disappointment] Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand. - [Flowers] First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation. - in a speech in Boston [Government] Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. - [Industry] Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance, giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character. - [Gratitude] Greatness is its own torment. - [Greatness] Humanity is the Son of God. - [Humanity] I am conscious of eternal life. - [Immortality] I look through the grave into heaven. - [Immortality] In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. - [Greatness] In this country every one gets a mouthful of education, but scarcely any one a full meal. - [Education] Intellect is stronger than cannon. - [Intellect] It is very, sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician--I should like to be also something of a man. - [Business] It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work. - [Nature] Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. - [Justice] Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. - [Duty] Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world. - [Duty] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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