The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

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.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.