If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.