You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

"You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into making something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty."

"You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty."

You must not complicate your government beyond the capacity of its electorate to understand it.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.