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

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.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.