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

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

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.

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 Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.