Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.