Society and the World

We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanship—the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.

The young man who asks you to set him one heart-beat from the Presidency of the United States.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes!

If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late

Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Okie use’ ta mean you was from Oklahoma.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

A clever theft was praiseworthy amongst the Spartans; and it is equally so amongst Christians, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale.

A clever theft was praiseworthy amongst the Spartans; and it is equally so amongst Christians, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Science is organized knowledge.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.