Thomas Reed Quotes

If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.