Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.