To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

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.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.