The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.