"Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe."

-- Petrarch

#Heart Quotes #Earth Quotes #Woe Quotes

“Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.”
“We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.”
“Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.”

Source : "Men and Policies: Addresses". Book by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", 1924.
“We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.”
“The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.”
“Like many things, I am nothing.”
“Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.”
“I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.”

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