Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

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 central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

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.