Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

There are no social differences - till women come in.