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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.