There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

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

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.

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

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.