I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.