"Politics is for the present, but an..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

“But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.”

“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.”

“People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.”

“There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”

“The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us,the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.”

“The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.”

“Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far.”

“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.”