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…

- Carl L. Becker

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.

- Carl L. Becker

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…

- Carl L. Becker

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…

- Carl L. Becker

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

- Carl L. Becker

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

- Carl L. Becker

History is the memory of things said and done.

- Carl L. Becker

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

- Carl L. Becker

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

- Carl L. Becker