Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

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

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have, therefore, to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine.

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.