As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

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.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.