Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.