All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.