It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.