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.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.