Date of birth: 1811-11-29
Date of death: 1884-02-02
Quotes number: 36
Nationality: American
Profession: Activist
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
