George Francis Train quotes

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.
-- George Francis Train

#Peace #Fear #Truth

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!
-- George Francis Train

#Years #Land #History

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.