WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 25 May 2026 19:09:39 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg spur – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Carlyle, Thomas -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303/ https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303/#respond Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:57:54 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33303 The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.


Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
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Quoted in James Wood (ed.), Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893). ]]> https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/33303/feed/ 0 33303 Debs, Eugene V. -- Speech (1908-05-23), “The Issue,” Girard, Kansas https://wist.info/debs-eugene-v/375/ https://wist.info/debs-eugene-v/375/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=375 Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.


Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) American union leader, activist, socialist, politician
Speech (1908-05-23), “The Issue,” Girard, Kansas
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Impromptu speech in the town Debs was living in after his third nomination for President on the Socialist Democratic ticket. ]]> https://wist.info/debs-eugene-v/375/feed/ 0 375