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.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

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

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.