The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.