Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

The status quo is working.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.