Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

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

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.