I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.