The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

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

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

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

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 people's speech is the skin of its culture.

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