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| 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. | | Genius | |
| The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples | | Adventure; America and Americans | |
| The lesson of the tremendous days through which we are passing is that men cannot live upon the achievements of their forefathers, but must themselves renew them - We cannot escape the elementary facts of life - that for a people there is nothing for | | Uncategorized | |
| The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. | | Uncategorized | |
| The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. | | Uncategorized | |
| The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . | | Uncategorized | |
| The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. | | Uncategorized | |
| The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart | | Belief; Religion | |
| The senator might remember that the Evangelists had a more inspiring subject. | | Uncategorized | |
| The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. | | Uncategorized | |
| The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. | | Uncategorized | |
| The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. | | Uncategorized | |
| The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. | | Uncategorized | |
| The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price | | Writers | |
| There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great | | Journalism | |
| There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral | | Morality | |
| There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. | | Uncategorized | |
