The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

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