In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.