There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time as come.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Time whose tooth gnaws away everything else is powerless against truth.
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.