Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.