Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.