A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.