Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravestthreat to it.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

IN OUR CELLSThey keep us in our cellsFor a long time...And, if we get out, We lug them with us on our shoulders, Like a porter with a chest of goods.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our destiny.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.