If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.