If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.