We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

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

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.

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

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.