The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moronrun through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.