“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

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.

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are