Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.