I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.

I walk where I choose to walk.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.