Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anewβ¦
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
