Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.