William Wirt

“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.”

“He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it creates more wants than it supplies.”

“The glory of a republic is for its citizens to be free, and its rulers to be just.”

“Eloquence is not a stream that flows from a single fountain, but a mighty river, which is fed by all the springs of nature and of art.”

“There is no substitute for the love of truth, and the warmest philanthropy, and the most exalted piety.”