It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.