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 BEECHERWhen a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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