Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

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.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.