Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.