Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

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

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.