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.

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.