[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.