“We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.” WisdomPoliticsMoralEconomyIntellectualLiberalismMoral Life Book:The Law Source: The Law
“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.” PeopleWayShouldYearsWisdomDesirePoliticsEnjoyEconomyPiecesHonestTenIntellectualYears AgoTwentiesChinaTricksCompareLiberalismGoodsCapabilityCrookedAffluenceThis SocietyAffluentGoods And Services Author:Louis O. Kelso
“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.” ShouldReasonSeemsTogetherPoliticalPoliticsIntellectualArgumentReason WhyPatriotismNo ReasonPartisansTrimming Author:Herman Melville
“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.” ShouldHas BeensStatesPoliticalPoliticsUnitedUnited StatesIntellectualShould HaveServantIronicOutsidersShould Have BeenScapegoatPolitical History Author:Richard Hofstadter
“I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.” MenWorldMayMadePoliticsBitsRepublicanIntellectualDemocratAdministrationInkBureaucrats Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick
“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” KindShowsPoliticalFaithPoliticsMoralConfidenceIntellectualCapacity Author:George McGovern
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.” OrderPoliticsUnderstandingPersonalityIntellectualArgumentIntelligenceArguingSarcastic Love Author:Pierre Beaumarchais