We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

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

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

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