People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther
I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men. – Martin Luther
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper