An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.