For most people, political activity is a secondary activity – that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending to these arrangements. But the activity is one which every member of the group who is not a child nor a lunatic has some part and some responsibility.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.