Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Friends are born, not made.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.