Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.