History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.

In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.