The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

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

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.