Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

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.