Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had? | We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. | In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better. | Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. | Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. | The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. | The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. | We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live. | When you strike at a king, you must kill him. | Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves. |
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