Civic virtue is not best justified in terms of fair play in a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage, because citizenship is not a strictly reciprocal relationship in which people receive benefits in proportion to their contributions, but a joint relationship that realizes the common good of freedom and self-government.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.