The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.

You can never know a lot but you can always do a lot.

To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.