William M. Evarts quotes

William M. Evarts quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.”
-- William M. Evarts

Source : Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.

#Rocks Quotes #Plymouth Quotes #Knees Quotes
“Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.”
-- William M. Evarts

#World Quotes #Moral Quotes #Truth Is Quotes
“It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.”
-- William M. Evarts

#Men Quotes #Together Quotes #World Quotes
“The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it.”
-- William M. Evarts

#Truth Quotes #Too Much Quotes #World Quotes
“The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.”
-- William M. Evarts

#Men Quotes #Light Quotes #People Quotes
“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”
-- William M. Evarts

#Father Quotes #Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes

You may also like:

Chauncey Depew
Former United States Senator
Elihu Root
Former U.S. Senator
Emma Lazarus
Poet
James L. Buckley
Former United States Senator
Roger Sherman
United States Representative
Roscoe Conkling
Former member of the United States Senate
Seth Low
Mayor of New York City
William H. Seward
Former Governor of New York
William L. Marcy
Former American senator