Thomas Reed famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Evil #Liberty #World
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
-- Thomas Reed

#Humorous #Majority #Vote
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
-- Thomas Reed

#Lonely #Loneliness #Men
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
-- Thomas Reed

#Sarcastic #Mouths #Humans
Politics is mostly pill-taking.
-- Thomas Reed

#Political #Pills
If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.
-- Thomas Reed

#Progress #Matter #Today
They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.
-- Thomas Reed

#Political
There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.
-- Thomas Reed

#Race #Police #Humanity
The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.
-- Thomas Reed

#Party #Watches
All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.
-- Thomas Reed

#Majority #World #Shouting
If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.
-- Thomas Reed

#Progress #Matter #Today
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
-- Thomas Reed

#Successful #Politician #Statesmen
The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.
-- Thomas Reed

#Moving #Men #Race
The only justification of rebellion is success.
-- Thomas Reed

#Rebellion #Justification
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
-- Thomas Reed

#Men #Principles #Sides

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