The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

There can be no security where there is fear.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

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

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.