"Difference of opinion is the one crime..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.”

“Genius is power, talent is applicability.”

“If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.”

“The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.”

“Power has to be insecure to be responsive.”

“History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.”

“I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.”

“In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.”

“I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.”