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A broad consensus exists that Lincoln was more eloquent than Davis in expressing war aims, more... More
A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every... More
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal... More
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. More
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant.... More
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. More
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the... More
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to... More
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end,... More
A friend in power is a friend lost. More
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. More
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of... More
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. More
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but... More
A man calumniated is doubly injured—first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who... More
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. More
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead,... More
A nation is not a person, but it manifests certain personal traits, especially since it is a more... More
A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known... More
A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically,... More
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the... More
A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly... More
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than... More
A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn... More
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had... More
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are
a... More
Advertising could not be understood as simply another form of salesmanship. It aimed at something... More
Alike in so many ways, united by so many indestructible bonds, the two brothers were still... More
All architects want to live beyond their deaths. More
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with... More
All the isms are wasms—except one, the most powerful ism of this century, indeed, of the entire... More
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. More
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every... More
America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant... More
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries... More
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks... More
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction,... More
An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist. More
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober... More
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his... More
As a theater strategist, Lee often demonstrated more brilliance and apparent originality than... More
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. More
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly... More
As for pictures and museums, that don’t trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you’ve... More
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The... More
As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos... More
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson. More
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our... More
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is “inseparable” from the... More
As soon as you begin to say “We have always done things this way—perhaps that might be a... More
As survivals from an archaic order, serfdom and slavery had common conflicts with a modern world... More
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed... More
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. More
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools.... More
Avarice, the spur of industry. More
Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is... More
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky. More
Before anything else [Numa] decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods,... More
Before you act, consider; when you have considered, ‘tis fully time to act. More
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the... More
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on... More
Boasting is often carried by certain Americans to the extreme. Often however it is a reaction... More
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had... More
Both peoples had a clearly defined consciousness of being different from all other peoples: The... More
Burke and Adams had much in common. Adams read Burke’s Philosophical Inquiry, for example, as... More
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first... More
But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a... More
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by... More
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our... More
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash... More
Ce corps qui s’appelait et qui s’appelle encore le saint empire romain n’était en aucune... More
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by... More
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. More
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. More
Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the... More
Circumstances rule men and not men circumstances. More
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than... More
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. More
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people... More
Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible. More
Cold eyes ... steel grey, rather small, not unpleasant in good-humour, diabolic in a passion, but... More
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the... More
Computers “remember” things in the form of discrete entries: the input of quantities,... More
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid,... More
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. More
Courtin’s manual of etiquette of 1671 explains: “These little people are allowed to amuse... More
Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. More
Culture means control over nature. More
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. More
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. More
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. More
Dates are stupidly annoying—what we want is not dates but taste;Myet we are uncomfortable... More
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. More
Despite the great differences in the objectives of the two men, there are important similarities... More
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power,... More
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin,... More
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilisation. More
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment... More
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible. More
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a... More

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