Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.