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

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.

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

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.