Whether we wish it our not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our land."

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative. The jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.

"Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern."

The writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy; the others have too high a price.