Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.