We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

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