No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.