If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hand...
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emot...
If you are going through hell, keep going
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Social...
The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by...
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hur...
I'm bored with it all. - Last Words
...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in...
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miser...
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one.