There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.