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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
One example is worth a thousand arguments.
To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
