Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.