Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

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

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.

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

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.