The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation.
That which is not just is not law.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
A mans country is the world.
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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