No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. |
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. |
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples |
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases. |
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great |
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. |
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. |
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much |
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much |