Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.