Wisdom Quotes

"In serving ourselves alone, we serve no one of worth."

"When we abandon our principles, we become strangers to ourselves."

"The physician who heals society first must diagnose its sickness."

"The common people possess uncommon wisdom when given uncommon voice."

"The measure of a nation is how it treats those it deems powerless."

"I have always observed that mankind are much more happily served by their own senses than by the rhetoric of others."

"I have learned that the greatest victories are often won without firing a shot."

"The pursuit of happiness is meaningless without the pursuit of truth."

"Bad men cannot make good citizens."

"Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the proper one."

"The measure of a man is by the causes he will die for."

"Fortune favors the bold, but wisdom guides the brave."

"To warn is the duty of the free; to listen is the choice of the wise."

"In the saddle, a man learns that speed without purpose is merely chaos."

"In darkness, direction matters more than distance."

"A warning delivered in time is worth more than all the gold in Christendom."

"Those who build their futures on the backs of others will find them crumbling."

"The night ride was not born of recklessness, but of careful deliberation and moral necessity."

"In the saddle, a man learns that speed without wisdom is merely self-destruction."

"A well-informed public is the best defense against tyranny."

"As long as the reason of man continues fallible and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed."

"The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thinking."

"Happily for the states, they enjoy the advantage of being able to appeal to the sense of the people."

"I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse."

"The great and real business of life is to know ourselves."

"There are very few certainties that I know with a mathematical certainty."

"The mind must not only possess knowledge but the skill to use it."

"The man who is tempted and falls, is not so culpable as he who yields to the temptation and then rises to commit further sins."

"The attainment of the summum bonum requires us to practise virtue."

"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."