The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.