Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
"James Harvey Robinson" was an American historian.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous historians! More James Harvey Robinson on Wikipedia.Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
With supreme irony, the war to "make the world safe for democracy" ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
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