The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

I walk where I choose to walk.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.