In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

For most people, political activity is a secondary activity - that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending to these arrangements. But the activity is one which every member of the group who is not a child nor a lunatic has some part and some responsibility.

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

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.