The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

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

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.

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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.