💬 Quotes

"Instead of being a destructive force, the Revolution was constructive. It was building a new world out of the wreckage of the old."

"History is a strange texture; it is woven by the blind passions of masses, but also by the conscious will of men who dare to dream."

"To understand the Russian Revolution, one must realize that the common man was not merely fighting for bread, but for human dignity and self-determination."

"There are times in history when the impulse of the masses becomes an irresistible torrent, sweeping away centuries of oppression in a matter of days."

"He had changed his name, but he could not change his country."

"Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!"

"For your country, boy, and for that flag, never dream a word against it, but remember that though it may go wrong sometimes, you are responsible to it still."

"For fifty years that man had never been able to utter the word 'home.'"

"The man without a country was a man without a self, a ghost haunting the decks of warships where he was neither guest nor prisoner."

"He knew our politics, our commerce, and our growing cities better than we did ourselves, yet he was an outcast from the very soil he studied."

"Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are."

"The mass of men are employed in getting a livelihood; but you should not think it enough to get a livelihood, unless you get it worth living for."

"Food, and raiment, and lodging are indeed the things for want of which men and animals die; but the things which a man lives for, or dies for, are beauty, hope, love, and admiration."

"Remember that all the scholastic wisdom of the realm is a dead letter, if the university officers do not teach you to read; and to read is to go out, for a half-hour, every day, into a different society."

"The true nature of home is this: the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division."

"A man's power is active, progressive, defensene. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender."

"God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil."

"Plants are shaped by cultivation, man by education."

"Childhood has its own ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling, nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute our ways."

"Let him not be taught science, let him discover it."