Practical Politics Consists In Ignoring Facts.

By Nature, Man Is Lazy, Working Only Under Compulsion; And When He Is Strong We Will Always Live, As Far As He Can, Upon The Labor Or The Property Of The Weak.

An American Virgin Would Never Dare Command; An American Venus Would Never Dare Exist.

From Cradle To Grave This Problem Of Running Order Through Chaos, Direction Through Space, Discipline Through Freedom, Unity Through Multiplicity, Has Always Been, And Must Always Be, The Task Of Education, As It Is The Moral Of Religion, Philosophy, Science, Art, Politics And Economy; But A Boy's Will Is His Life, And He Dies When It Is Broken, As The Colt Dies In Harness, Taking A New Nature In Becoming Tame.

No Historian Can Take Part With--or Against--the Forces He Has To Study. To Him Even The Extinction Of The Human Race Should Merely Be A Fact To Be Grouped With Other Vital Statistics.

I Think That Lee Should Have Been Hanged. It Was All The Worse That He Was A Good Man And A Fine Character And Acted Conscientiously... It's Always The Good Men Who Do The Most Harm In The World.