There can be no security where there is fear.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.