Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.