Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.