Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

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

The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.