Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.