"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.