- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, “father” of America’s nuclear navy (1900-1986)
- What experience and history teach is this: that people and governments have never learned anything from history. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (1770-1831)
- More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much. – P.T. Barnum, American showman (1810-1891)
- The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. – Woodrow Wilson, American president (1856-1924)
- The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming. – Mike Mansfield, American statesman (1903-2001)
Political Quotations – Set 6
Mar 09, 2009
Filed Under: Political Quotations Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Douglas MacArthur, Georg Hegel, Harry Fosdick, Hendrik Van Loon, Hyman Rickover, Learned Hand, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Luther King, Mike Mansfield, Norbert Wiener, PT Barnum, Rene Descartes, Sydney Harris, Wendell Wilkie, Woodrow Wilson