The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

Rich people are poor people with money.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.