[b]John Stuart Mill
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.[/b]
Let’s run this by, among others, Don Trump.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
On the other hand, money still talks. And more than occasionally screams.
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
Well, he does choose to opt for the custom.
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
Right, and look where that got me.
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
Isn’t that [still] something?!
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
By all means then make that me.