We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.