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| Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. | 1 |
| Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. | 2 |
| Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake. | 3 |
| Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence. | 4 |
| Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men…. Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. | 5 |
| Government began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature. | 6 |
| Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. | 7 |
| Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. | 8 |
| Health lies in labour, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. | 9 |
| Hearts are stronger than swords. | 10 |
| Justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organised selfishness of human nature. God has given manhood but one clue to success—utter and exact justice. | 11 |
| Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise. | 12 |
| One on God’s side is a majority. | 13 |
| Our self-made men are the glory of our institutions. | 14 |
| Power is ever stealing from the many to the few. | 15 |
| Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. | 16 |
| Revolutions never go backward. | 17 |
| The heart is the best logician. | 18 |
| To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. | 19 |
| Truth is one, for ever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator. | 20 |
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| What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. | 21 |
| What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. | 22 |
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