[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

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.