There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

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

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.