“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

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

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach inside and pull out something to keep you going – no, to go faster – when you have nothing left to give.

For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.