Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

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

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

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

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.