A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

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

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