Quotes from Stephen Budiansky

Life is a struggle, and it is the struggle that gives it meaning. The only thing to do was to give one's all, and leave the consequences to fate.7

provisions of the Constitution . . . are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil.50 The most important provisions . . . constitute the original inheritance of the American people, which they brought over with them from England. . . . Constitutions are not made, but they grow by an inherent law of progress and adaptation to changing circumstances.

there is less danger in fearing too much than too little"—

And he plainly disagreed with the reverence for Wittgenstein's idea that mathematics, like language, was merely a tool, a set of rules or a syntax that had no inherent meaning in itself.

His other way of getting people to know who he was was by constantly dropping in to their offices and asking about their work.

never to be caught by another Pearl Harbor.

It is dangerous that by sudden invasions men shall be drawn to the use of his weapons before he hath skill how to use it

Schönerer, he related in Mein Kampf how much he had learned during his years in Vienna from watching the mayor's skill in flattering the urban proletariat, and in understanding that the less propaganda is based on intellectual appeals and reason, and the more on "the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be.

they were among the most enthusiastic supporters of the new "scientific" anti-Semitic theories that ascribed a host of loathsome traits to Jews' inherent racial characteristics.