A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

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

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

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

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.