Every age thinks

Every age thinks
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
  

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The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country
It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.
A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.