The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.