I Would Rather Believe Something And Suffer

I Mean To Make Myself A Man, And If I Succeed In That, I Shall Succeed In Everything Else.

Ideas Are The Great Warriors Of The World, And A War That Has No Idea Behind It, Is Simply A Brutality.

Light Itself Is A Great Corrective. A Thousand Wrongs And Abuses That Are Grown In Darkness Disappear, Like Owls And Bats, Before The Light Of Day.

Talleyrand Once Said To The First Napoleon That The United States Is A Giant Without Bones. Since That Time Our Gristle Has Been Rapidly Hardening.

There Are Times In The History Of Men And Nations, When They Stand So Near The Vale That Separates Mortals From The Immortals, Time From Eternity, And Men From Their God, That They Can Almost Hear The Beatings, And Feel The Pulsations Of The Heart Of The Infinite.