What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.