Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

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

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.