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.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.