“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Those who attempt to level never equalize.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Make love your weapon to overcome any evil.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

It’s good not to do evil. But it’s evil not to do good.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.