A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
From Walter Lippmann
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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