Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

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

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.