It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

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

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

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.