Colonial Sense: Society-Lifestyle: Colonial Quotes

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.	— William Ellery
Error is discipline through which we advance.	— William Ellery
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.	— William Ellery
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.	— William Ellery
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.	— William Ellery
I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith...	— William Ellery
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.	— William Ellery
The home is the chief school of human virtues.	— William Ellery
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.	— William Ellery
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.	— William Ellery
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.	— William Ellery
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.	— William Ellery
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace	— William Ellery