Advice To Persons About To Write History

It Is Bad To Be Oppressed By A Minority, But It Is Worse To Be Oppressed By A Majority. For There Is A Reserve Of Latent Power In The Masses Which, If It Is Called Into Play, The Minority Can Seldom Resist. But From The Absolute Will Of An Entire People There Is No Appeal, No Redemption, No Refuge But Treason.

The Light That Has Guided Us Is Still Unquenched, And The Causes That Have Carried Us So Far In The Van Of Free Nations Have Not Spent Their Power; Because The Story Of The Future Is Written In The Past, And That Which Hath Been Is The Same Thing That Shall Be.

I Have Reached The End Of My Time, And Have Hardly Come To The Beginning Of My Task.

A Wise Person Does At Once, What A Fool Does At Last. Both Do The Same Thing; Only At Different Times.

A Generous Spirit Prefers That His Country Should Be Poor, And Weak, And Of No Account, But Free, Rather Than Powerful, Prosperous, And Enslaved.