“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”
“There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.”
“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”
“Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].”
“The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.”
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