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| It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf | | Wisdom | |
| Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. | | Uncategorized | |
| Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed | | Uncategorized | |
| Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. | | Men | |
| Men who are "orthodox" when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives | | Mankind | |
| Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. | | Authority; Freedom; Mankind | |
| No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task | | Character | |
| Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men | | Uncategorized | |
| Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. | | Uncategorized | |
| Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. | | Uncategorized | |
| Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City. | | Uncategorized | |
| Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no-one says exactly what he thinks. | | Uncategorized | |
| Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. | | Politicians | |
| The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence | | Uncategorized | |
| The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. | | Uncategorized | |
| The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. | | Uncategorized | |
| The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. | | Leadership | |
| The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. | | Uncategorized | |
