Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.