Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.