Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

- Bergen Evans

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the …

- Bergen Evans

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

- Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own i…

- Bergen Evans

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

- Bergen Evans

Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and p…

- Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

- Bergen Evans

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustmen…

- Bergen Evans

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

- Bergen Evans