I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

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 aid them to judge for themselves.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics that action and reaction are equal and opposite that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.