There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.