Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own...
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
Death comes along like a gas bill one can’t payand that’s all one can sayabout it.
Reality is what I see, not what you see.
I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President – but that would not break my heart.
I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.
If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.
The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.
Here lies, in a “horizontal” position The “outside” case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life “wound up” In hopes of being “taken in hand” by his Maker, And of being thoroughly “cleaned, repaired” and “set a-going” In the world to come.
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.
It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists – believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.
Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.