Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.