Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.