The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.