Quotes of Horseback - somelinesforyou

“ Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. ”

- Luther

“ Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair… ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover
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