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.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.