James Harvey Robinson Quotes

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

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With supreme irony, the war to make the world safe for democracy ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848

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Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

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