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

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

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.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

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

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.