If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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.

Communism is the opiate of the people.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.