The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Communism is the opiate of the people.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.