Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

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.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.