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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.
It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.
