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

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

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

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.

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.