“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” (1924)
“This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.” (1919)
“The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.” (1922)
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”
“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.“
“Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.“
“There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.“
“Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.“
Trego's Mountain Ear 
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