Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.