Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.