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Nothing fails like success.
I have seen the future, and it works.
I am really puzzled to understand myself.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
I have been over into the future, and it works.
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know
The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.
It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.
Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.
My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.