Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.