Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

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

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

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