It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Duty cannot exist without faith
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
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