The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.