All progress is experimental.

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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning...

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning...

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust...

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust...

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon...

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon...

I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system,...

I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system,...