Category: Thought

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don’t need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone’s intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

One can hardly say that republicanism has failed, or say a priori that it is bound to fail, so long as it has not been tried under conditions essential to its success.

As long as our people are incapable of the simplest possible process of putting two and two together, I can not get much warmed up over their political misfortunes.

It is a widespread fallacy that skillful advertising can talk the consumers into buying everything that the advertiser wants them to buy. The consumer is, according to this legend, simply defenseless against high-pressure advertising. If this were true, success or failure in business would depend on the mode of advertising only.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?