Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

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.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

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

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.