More From William Ellery Channing
- "Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
- "We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
- "God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
More In Politics
- "Well, you know what, I’m 60 years old, and I’ve been interested in politics since I was on my daddy’s knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics."― Roger Ebert
- "Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth."― Navjot Singh Sidhu
- "It doesn’t matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can’t speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community."― Seymour Hersh