Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. - Bergen Evans
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
- Bergen Evans
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. - Bergen Evans
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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
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…
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
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…
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons. - Bergen Evans
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
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
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 …
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. - Bergen Evans
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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
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…
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