The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

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

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.