Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.