Quote

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty second, liberty third, liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Firsts
Commerce
First
Required
Things
Third
Thirds
Labor
Second
Liberty
Manufactures
Three
Prosperous

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A dull ax never loves grindstones.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A babe is a mother's anchor.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
THERE are joys which long to be ours.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
Henry Ward Beecher