To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.