And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.