“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.