Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

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