Famous quotes containing the word minds:
“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)