The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

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.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.