Practical Politics Consists In Ignoring Facts.

Absolute Liberty Is Absence Of Restraint; Responsibility Is Restraint; Therefore, The Ideally Free Individual Is Responsible To Himself.

[p]hilosophy . . .consists Chiefly In Suggesting Unintelligible Answers To Insoluble Problems.

The Proof That A Philosopher Does Not Know What He Is Talking About Is Apt To Sadden His Followers Before It Reacts On Himself.

Education Should Try To Lessen The Obstacles, Diminish The Friction, Invigorate The Energy, And Should Train Minds To React, Not At Haphazard, But By Choice, On The Lines Of Force That Attract Their World. What One Knows Is, In Youth, Of Little Moment; They Know Enough Who Know How To Learn.

Mr Jefferson Meant That The American System Should Be A Democracy, And He Would Rather Have Let The Whole World Perish Than That This Principle, Which To Him Represented All That Man Was Worth, Should Fail. Mr Hamilton Considered Democracy A Fatal Curse, And Meant To Stop Its Progress.