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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.
[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.
I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.
I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.
North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.
If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.
Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.