Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

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

The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

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

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

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.