“A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.”
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“A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.”
“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world”
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies ”
“Morality is a private and costly luxury”
“They know enough who know how to learn”
“In plain words, chaos was the law of nature, order was the dream of man.””
“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself”
“We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable”
““It is always good men who do the most harm in the world”
“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts”
“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage”
“All experience is an arch to build upon”
“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own”
“Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.”
“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence”
“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game”
“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or senator, and remain fit for anything else”
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts”
“The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong”