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Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
A book is the only immortality
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.
Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
Its Constitution
the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
