wisdom Quotes

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Defense is superior to opulence.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.