Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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The things that hurt us teach us.
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