“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass Quote

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.