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

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

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

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.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.