It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.