Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

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

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.