Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

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

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

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.