A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.