Society and the World

The cause of freedom, of the defense of man’s conscience, is indivisible. By defending it in one country, we defend it everywhere in the world.

The cause of freedom, of the defense of man’s conscience, is indivisible. By defending it in one country, we defend it everywhere in the world.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

 

We haven’t got too much time left to ensure that government of the earth, by the earth, for the earth, shall not perish from the people.

We haven’t got too much time left to ensure that government of the earth, by the earth, for the earth, shall not perish from the people.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about.

 

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

 

Come good times or bad, there is always a market for things nobody needs.

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

 

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

We wear the cape of civilization But our souls live in the stone age.

We wear the cape of civilization But our souls live in the stone age.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.