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.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist

The principal cause of war is war itself.

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

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.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.