The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.