The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.