Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

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

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.