There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.