Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

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.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.