More From William Ellery Channing
- "No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
- "God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
- "Life has a higher end, than to be amused."
More In Hope
- "There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They’re the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run."― Howard Dean
- "I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ‘cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected."― Samuel L. Jackson
- "It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with."― Mitt Romney