We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

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