Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

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

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.