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.
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.
Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
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