Politics are a very unsatisfactory game

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn