A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.