One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.