We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

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.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

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.