The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not d….

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor..

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform wha….

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables ….

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life..

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed..

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to acce….

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas..

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Sou….

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas….

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for privat….

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question..

History is the memory of things said and done..

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular cla….

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it..

My own mind is my own church..

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any..