Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.