History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.