The Historian Must Not Try To Know

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.

Laplace Would Have Found It Child's-play To Fix A Ratio Of Progression In Mathematical Science Between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton And Himself

You May Cut Off The Heads Of Every Rich Man Now Living--of Every Statesman--every Literary, And Every Scientific Authority, Without In The Least Changing The Social Situation. Artists, Of Course, Disappeared Long Ago As Social Forces. So Did The Church. Corporations Are Not Elevators, But Levellers, As I See Them.

Politics, As A Practise, Whatever Its Professions, Has Always Been The Systematic Organization Of Hatreds.

If Washington Were President Now, He Would Have To Learn Our Ways Or Lose His Next Election. Only Fools And Theorists Imagine That Our Society Can Be Handled With Gloves Or Long Poles. One Must Make One's Self A Part Of It. If Virtue Won't Answer Our Purpose, We Must Use Vice, Or Our Opponents Will Put Us Out Of Office, And This Was As True In Washington's Day As It Is Now, And Always Will Be.