The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.