Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

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

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.