A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.