Chief Quotes

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don’t, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.

A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.

One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.