Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

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

If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug, and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

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