Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

Fairy tales are more than true.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.