It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.