Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
A ‘new thinker’, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? Frank Moore Colby Read Quote
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. Frank Moore Colby Read Quote