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

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.