“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

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.

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

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

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

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

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

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man.