"All the higher, more penetrating ideals are..." - Quote by William James

“Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.”

“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”

“Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.”

“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.”

“The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.”

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”

“Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.”