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

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.