The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

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

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

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.

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

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