You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Children are the keys of paradise.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.