We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

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

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.