“Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?” DoeIdeasEndsGoalBornStruggleTriumphTransformed Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos
“When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.” JusticeVirtuePride Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos
“Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.” KnowsLoveHumansHuman BeingsKnow HowHow To Love Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos
“Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.” NeedsShapesSlavery Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos
“Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.” MenCharacterAmericaGrowthRightsMiddleProductsBackgroundsCivil RightsJohnsonMiddle AgedSouthernerWesterners Author:Tom Wicker
“Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.” ReasonPhilosophyPoliticalWinningPartyAcceptingParticularVotersPolitical PartiesPolitical PhilosophyIdeological Author:Tom Wicker
“Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.” IfsWellsTwoOrderTermPoliticianDollarsFinancialConsensus Author:Tom Wicker
“There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.” KnowsMenHumansPoliticianWeaknessEnmityHuman Strength Author:Tom Wicker
“Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.” MenPowerfulPowerRightsOfficeRecognitionHonored Author:Tom Wicker
“He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.” NeedsHumansMightMovingPresidentIllusionIndependentWilsonHuman NeedsEntanglement Author:Tom Wicker