What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

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

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

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.