Thomas Reed quotes:

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

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

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

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

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

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

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

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

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

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

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

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

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