Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Any number of lies will serve a rich and evil man.
Be careful of rich and powerful men for they will do nothing for your sake.
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.