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.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

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

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

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