The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.