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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
  EBAN...
• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
  -- Abba Eba...
• Katz' Law: Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
  History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives....
• Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• All words are pegs on which to hang ideas.
• No changes of circumstances can repair a defect of character. -- Emerso
• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
  -- William H. Borah...
• If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.
  See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for....