The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?