Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.