Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.