If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.