Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.