Great Throughts Treasury

"No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility."

"The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite."

"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all."

"Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened."

"In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid."

"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear - unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called “the insolence of elected persons” - in a word, free men... Freedom is always purchased at a great price, and even those who are willing to pay it have to admit that the price is great."