A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.