A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.