Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.