The Being Without An Opinion

The Being Without An Opinion Is So Painful To Human Nature That Most People Will Leap To A Hasty Opinion Rather Than Undergo It.

A Parliament Is Nothing Less Than A Big Meeting Of More Or Less Idle People.

War Both Needs And Generates Certain Virtues; Not The Highest, But What May Be Called The Preliminary Virtues, As Valor, Veracity, The Spirit Of Obedience, The Habit Of Discipline. Any Of These, And Of Others Like Them, When Possessed By A Nation, And No Matter How Generated, Will Give Them A Military Advantage, And Make Them More Likely To Stay In The Race Of Nations.

The Caucus Is A Sort Of Representative Meeting Which Sits Voting And Voting Till They Have Cut Out All The Known Men Against Whom Much Is To Be Said, And Agreed On Some Unknown Man Against Whom There Is Nothing Known, And Therefore Nothing To Be Alleged.

The Real Essence Of Work Is Concentrated Energy - People Who Really Have That In A Superior Degree By Nature Are Independent Of The Forms And Habits And Artifices By Which Less Able And Less Active People Are Kept Up To Their Labors.