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

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.