Famous Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

  • Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. – Charles Caleb Colton

    Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.– Charles Caleb Colton

  • When you have nothing to say, say nothing. – Charles Caleb Colton

    When you have nothing to say, say nothing.– Charles Caleb Colton

  • Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

    Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.– Charles Caleb Colton

  • Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. – Charles Caleb Colton

    Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.– Charles Caleb Colton

  • Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip. – Charles Caleb Colton

    Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.– Charles Caleb Colton

  • True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost. – Charles Caleb Colton

    True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.– Charles Caleb Colton

  • Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. – Charles Caleb Colton

    Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.– Charles Caleb Colton