Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.