The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

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.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.