"Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze."

“There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.”

“It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

“You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.”

“I'm still very much Kate.”

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“The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.”

Source : Archibald MacLeish (1940). “A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish”, Boston, Mifflin

“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

“I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid”

“I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org