All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.