The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.