Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god. That's much more dangerous than when people don't believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they're not dangerous.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.