It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.