Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

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

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