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

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

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

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.