I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.
The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.