The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is there anything in which the people of this age and country differ more from those of other lands and former times than in this-...-their ability to preserve order and protect rights without the aid of government? ... We are realizing the paradox, "that country is governed best which is governed least." I no longer fear lynch law. Let the people be intelligent and good, and I am not sure but their impulsive, instinctive verdicts and sentences and executions, unchecked by the rules and technicalities of law, are more likely to be according to substantial justice than the decisions of courts and juries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebe...lling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population--the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opi...um of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father was just and good to both white and colored, and as they dwelt and worked together I never heard or saw one cruel act pe...rpetrated. The workers were fed well, clothed well, and allowed, after their regular work, to earn wages, and thus the industrious lived most comfortably. There was not a trace of aggressiveness as there is now, but the people were jolly and always full of jokes and pranks. For instance, they had devious ways of procuring extra passes, without which they could not leave their masters' farms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommu...nicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes Have lost the light that bites or terrifies.... There are no swans and swallows any more. The people settled for chicken and shut the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »